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North and Central America (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:

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Overton Park. Miss Johnston, Miss Reiner and self, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/21
Scope and Contents

115 x 70 mm. Showing all three posed in front of an automobile. Miss Johnston is to the left of Tymms, and Miss Reiner to the right.

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Overton Park. Miss Rainer, Buchanan, self [i.e. Frederick Tymms], 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/20
Scope and Contents

115 x 70 mm. Showing all three posing beside a lake on one side, and the road on the other. Miss Rainer is seated on the grass. There is an automobile behind them, about to pass, and a woman and child walking along the road on the right.

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Owen Sound, 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 11/2386
Scope and Contents

Landscape format.

Dates: 1908-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Owen Sound, 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 11/2387
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 2337-2499 (originally there were 166). Added numbers are: 2407A, 2436A and 2471B; spoiled 2359 and 2371; not used: 2345, 2431 and 2432; missing: 2430, 2444 and 2459. Subjects covered in this album are:Winnipeg; Fort William: Ogilvie Flour Mills; Port Arthur; Kakabeka Falls; Owen Sound; Horseshoe Falls, Niagara; St Catharine's and Lincoln County: agricultural scenes. Newfoundland: Port aux Basques; coastal and fishing...
Dates: 1908-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ox teams and freight wagons at Yale, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3069A/14
Scope and Contents

245 x 192 mm. A view showing two covered wagons, each drawn by a team of ten oxen with their drivers standing beside the wagons. In the background the houses of Yale can be partially seen, with a sheer, rocky hillside beyond.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Oxen and cart, and the Post Office, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3031
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Lunenburg, N.S.

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Oxen and Plough [on the prairie], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/68
Scope and Contents

A coloured slide

Dates: 1910 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Packhorses at camp site], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/61
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A series of slides showing the CCCS's work among rural communities in Canada. The series also contains a few slides of historical events.

Dates: 1910 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Packing apples, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2587
Scope and Contents

At Kelowna.

Dates: 1908-09 - 1908-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Packing limes, Hillsboro' Estate, May 1896, 1896

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307H/56
Scope and Contents

l00x76mm. Showing women at work in an open-sided shed, possibly the building seen in Y307H/41.

Dates: 1896
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pages from the Early History of Barbados; some notes on Church History, 1910

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/7/9
Scope and Contents

A supplement to the 'Barbados Agricultural Reporter', 23 Apr.1910

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Fonds

Painting of Cohune Palm, British Honduras, 1885-04-26

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 240/29
Scope and Contents

An ink and wash picture on olive green paper, 7'' x 10'', signed on the front 'H. Wickham, Corozal, 1885'. On the back is written 'Cohoon or Cohune palm, Corozal, British Honduras, 26 April 1885. H.A. Wickham'.

Dates: 1885-04-26
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Fonds

Paintings of the Niagara Falls, 1850

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 240/12
Scope and Contents

Two paintings, each 9¼'' x 13'', depicting the Niagara Falls from the top of American Fall and from the Ice Bridge.

Dates: 1850
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Paleologus Memorial in Barbados, 1908 - 1915

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/2/21
Scope and Contents

Newspaper cutting from 'Daily Chronicle', Georgetown.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pallas, Athene, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/23
Scope and Contents

70 x 115 mm. Miss Johnston stood in a park or gardens. Exact location unknown. Presumably, Athene is her christian name.

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Palm Sunday in Montreal, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2807A
Scope and Contents

Notre Dame Street.

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Palm tree, May 1896, Botanical Station, Roseau, 1896 - 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307H/29
Scope and Contents

76x102mm. Showing a palm and other plants growing in a bed beside a path in the Botanical Gardens.

Dates: 1896 - 1897
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Palm Walk, Jamaica, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073C/6
Scope and Contents

75 x 98 mm. A view looking along a palm-lined path leading to an estate.

Dates: 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Palmerale du Jardin Botanique, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307E/41
Scope and Contents

133 x 88 mm.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Palmiste Est., Grenada, 1890 - 1893

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30771A/30
Scope and Contents 285 x 230 mm. A view looking across land planted out with young cocoa trees towards the Estate proprietor's house. An interesting feature of this photograph is the decaying ruins of a sugar mill visible at the right of the picture. Grenada was fortunate in turning to cocoa and away from sugar production before the slump induced by the European manufacture of sugar beet, and around the time this photograph was taken the majority of the few sugar works which were operating existed largely...
Dates: 1890 - 1893
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Palms, Botanic Gardens, Trinidad, BWI [British West Indies], 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3075A/9
Scope and Contents

196 x 243 mm. Showing an avenue of palms in the Botanic Gardens, Port of Spain.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Panama Canal, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/3
Scope and Contents

77 x 74mm. A hand-drawn map showing the route of the Panama Canal.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Panorama of Denver, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/97
Scope and Contents

251 x 152 mm. A view looking out over the city, with the Rocky Mountains visible in the distance. Denver was first settled in 1858, and as this picture shows in the abundance of large, solid houses, grew quickly in the 1870s and 1880s with the discovery of gold and silver in the area. The less crowded suburbs and their smaller houses can also be seen in the distance.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Panorama of Roseau, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30745B/4
Scope and Contents

459 x 183 mm (two prints). A panorama of Roseau composed of two prints, taken from the hills behind the town looking seawards. Between the town and the hills in the foreground can be seen the Botanical Station and Gardens.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Paper mill, Manitoba , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/131
Scope and Contents

Showing a large roll of newsprint being moved by crane in a Manitoba factory.

Dates: 1950 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).